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No Reason To Panic: What We Can Learn From The Dubai "Crisis"

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:06:10 GMT

Even after two decades in the markets, I am still beginning to get a whiplash keeping up with the gyrations of the stock markets these days.[More...]

Conexant Retires Debt - Analyst Blog

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:34:55 GMT

Conexant Systems, Inc. (CNXT) recently announced that it will redeem the remaining $61.4 million of outstanding floating rate senior secured notes due in November 2010 on Dec18, 2009. Earlier, the company retired an aggregate amount of $80 million of its senior secured notes due in November 2010.[More...]

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:19:07 GMT

As expected, Bank of America (BAC) will repurchase its $45 billion TARP preferreds, funded in part by an additional $18.8 billion in "common stock equivalents", $4.0 billion in asset sales, and $1.7 billion in restricted stock issued to employees in lieu of cash bonuses.[More...]

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:21:30 GMT

Good morning. Stocks tanked in the last half-hour on Thursday and while the major news outlets attributed the decline to either profit taking or some trepidation in front of this morning's big Jobs report, we'd like to offer a little more substantial reason for the 85 point dive on an otherwise subdued day of trading.[More...]

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:14:41 GMT

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet declined by $15 billion to $2,183 billion from the prior week, after the Fed presumably offloaded $2.7 billion in MBS: this is the first time since QE started that MBS holdings have declined. If anyone can tell us just who the idiots are who bought MBS from the Fed (and at what price), and who the even greater idiots are who are supposed to believe this, please send us an email.[More...]

Best Buy: This Season's Top Retail Stock?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:59:53 GMT

“I think it’s Best Buy, BBY for all you home gamers. It reports December 15th and I think it will deliver, yes, indeed… We went to a local Best Buy, under cover, of course, and found that…They have 47 different sets of flat panel TVs, versus 11 at Walmart. Average price, $957, cheaper than Walmart. This best buy beat Walmart on price. Hallelujah! Best Buy had great Black Friday traffic. The crowds were quote, materially bigger than last year.[More...]

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:38:07 GMT

China isn’t just leading the global economic recovery – it’s lapping the field.[More...]

Interesting Stat: How Much Private Sector GDP Is From Construction And Real Estate?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:15:56 GMT

Back in June, we discussed commercial real estate at length following attendance at a large real estate conference in NYC. Our tone was cautious and one question we wondered about was the percentage of GDP that real estate represents. We actually came across the answer back in August and meant to share then, but didn't get to it. Since the question/topic remains highly relevant to considering the potential negative economic drag from depressed real estate activity, we're sharing now -- the following table is from an 8/28/09 NYTs article, "Construction That Fueled Growth in the Sun Belt Slows":[More...]

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:59:02 GMT

The credit crunch crisis of confidence which we appear to be crawling out of even though the debt and equity markets catapulted themselves higher earlier this year could be similarly argued to be a crisis that started in the credit markets which crunched confidence around the world as it could a collapse in confidence in the value of the securities investors held which corrupted the credit markets causing them to cease funding.[More...]

Top Utilities Equity Funds - Mutual Fund Commentary

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:55:41 GMT

Today, we are featuring top-performing “Utilities" equity mutual funds, which primarily invest in equity securities of utilities, including telecom companies.[More...]

GM, Chinese partner join forces in India

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:48:00 GMT

BEIJING - General Motors Co. and its main Chinese partner announced a venture Friday to sell vehicles in India, uniting in the two fastest-growing car markets in a deal that reflects GM's reduced status as a global automaker.
As part of the deal, GM gave majority ownership of its main China joint venture to Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp., which is to invest up to $350 million in the India initiative.
GM has struggled for market share in India's fast-growing car market and a company official said bringing in SAIC and its investment meant the Indian venture could develop more quickly.

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No Reason To Panic: What We Can Learn From The Dubai "Crisis"

Conexant Retires Debt - Analyst Blog

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

Best Buy: This Season's Top Retail Stock?

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

Interesting Stat: How Much Private Sector GDP Is From Construction And Real Estate?

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

Top Utilities Equity Funds - Mutual Fund Commentary

GM, Chinese partner join forces in India

Suzuki Motor to withdraw from Canadian joint venture with GM

GM, Chinese partner join forces in India

Unified vision eludes energy corridor panel

GM, Chinese partner join forces in India

Solar panels, 'green roof' to generate rebate

Suzuki, General Motors to end Canada partnership

Automakers pushing smaller, cheaper, greener at L.A. Auto Show

Evening Standard, London, market report column

Job summit unlikely to bring consensus on economy

Epicor Retail Customers Garner Industry Recognition for Best Practice Cross-Channel Strategies

The Fortune Financial Undertakes Review of Stocks in the Healthcare and Services Sectors

SemGroup Announces Chief Risk Officer Selection

Energy Micro, the Provider of the World's Most Energy Efficient Microcontrollers, Strengthen Its Board of Directors by Adding Two Executive Level International Semiconductor Veterans

Central Garden & Pet Announces Fourth Quarter & Fiscal 2009 Results

Epicor(R) Launches Groundbreaking Green IT Initiative to Help Retailers Reduce Power and Paper Consumption

Asterand Announces Agreement to Acquire BioSeek

Jamba, Inc. Reports Net Income of $2.8 Million for Fiscal Third Quarter 2009

Flux Power Names EV Specialist and Pinball Wizard Joseph S. Gottlieb as CTO

Xcellink Signs Agreement With Technology Giant 3i Infotech for iPhone Integration

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